Diaspora

Black-and-white photo of a man in a white suit raising his right hand during a swearing-in ceremony, with officials and women standing nearby
History
How decades of US immigration law shaped the Filipino diaspora — and San Diego
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Upward view of a citrus tree with green leaves, one ripe orange fruit, and unripe green fruits against a clear sky
Diaspora
The migration of fruits and vegetables from the Philippines to the US
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Men in barong tagalog carry an ornate Virgin Mary statue adorned with flowers and a golden halo in an outdoor religious procession
Diaspora
Filipino migrants in the US set up institutions similar to back home
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Juneteenth Special
The Whitney Plantation in Louisiana focuses on the history and contributions of enslaved Africans
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Protesters in winter clothing hold signs reading "Hmong Against ICE" during a demonstration on a snowy street.
Immigration
Minnesota’s Hmong community feeling a sense of betrayal amid ICE crackdowns
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A lively scene in a dimly lit room with a smiling woman in a patterned dress dancing among a group of people. There are several people seated at tables, some of whom are smoking hookahs. The atmosphere is warm and social.
Culture
Turkey has become a growing hub for Iranian businesses and cultural spaces
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Diaspora
What happened to Chicago’s Japanese neighborhood?
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Food
Barbecue recipes — Asian-style
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Sacred Nation
Immersive shrine installation comes with chanting and controversy
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Sacred Spaces
The ‘1975’ project helps Vietnamese refugee families open up about their past
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Sacred Nation
As Catholic faith ebbs in Spain, missionary priests come to the rescue
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Food
‘A whole bunch of goodness’: Chef Alexander Smalls talks about new cookbook of African home cooking
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Arts, Culture & Media
‘Bad Kreyòl’ premieres in New York
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Arts, Culture & Media
The new film ‘Mountains’ looks at the beauty and challenges of the Haitian American experience
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Arts, Culture & Media
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture, the namesake behind Boston’s new Haitian cultural center?
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Riot police check spectators' bags as they guard an area at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall prior to the concert of the rock group Picnic and the symphony orchestra Tavrichesky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 27, 2024.
Race
Central Asians in Russia face increased scrutiny, discrimination after mass shooting 
"I'll Have What She's Having" is an exhibit that explores the history of Jewish delis in America.
Culture
Jewish American delis: A story of culture, community and survival
Florida is home to the largest Haitian community in the US with more than 300,000 people of Haitian ancestry.
Diaspora
Miami’s Little Haiti: What is lost when a community is displaced?
Clarissa Bitar plays the oud, a classic string instrument.
Movement
How the oud brought this Palestinian American musician closer to their culture, family and history
Men sit at a cafe at the Baqa'a refugee camp, north of the capital Amman, Dec. 12, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
Stateless Palestinians in Jordan struggle to make a future
Hundreds gather at a rally outside New Scotland Yard demanding police to do more to protect London's Jewish citizens.
Sacred Nation
Jewish London on edge amid spike in antisemitic attacks
Shukri Abasheikh, owner of Mogadishu Store, helps customer Gracia Mbula with a purchase in her store in Lewiston, Maine, on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.
Violence
Lewiston mass shooting rattles local Somalis who came to Maine looking for safety 
A young woman wearing a white shirt in the forefront of a colorful mural
Migration
‘Finding my home’: Mural features student poem about move to Miami
Yemeni vendors display various types of dry goods at a traditional market as food prices rise, in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 1, 2022.
Conflict & Justice
Yemenis say their country is about more than war and humanitarian aid
exhibit
Immigration
Argentines document European ancestry to migrate to the EU
Cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about (250 miles south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
Ukraine
Anti-war Russians who fled for safety now face deportation
Armenian skyline with buildings and mountains
Culture
More Armenians in California are moving back to their parents’ native land
The directors of “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire,” along with some other guests from Africa visit Disney studios to meet with filmmakers
Arts, Culture & Media
Contemporary African animators make their mark on the international scene
a sign outside of a clinic welcomes asylum seekers in various languages
Ukraine
Iceland fast-tracks Ukrainian refugees to residency, employment
three students smiling and wearing MIT sweatshirts
The World's Global Classroom
How Miami Dade College teaches students to learn, live in a bilingual world
man at podium
Immigration
Afghans who fled to the US hope that Congress will fix their status 
A group of Venezuelan migrants begins the grueling three day trek across the Darien Gap, as they leave the Colombian village of Capurgana.
Migration
As Title 42 ends, more migrants from South America are crossing the Darién jungle en route to US
Zhemal Gamakharia, Chairman of Abkhazia’s Supreme Council, a regional-level parliament.
Leaders
Georgian politicians from Russian-occupied Abkhazia run a ‘government-in-exile’
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during welcome ceremonies outside the 16th century Jeronimos monastery in Lisbon, Saturday, April 22, 2023. 
Conflict & Justice
Portugal’s president says country should apologize, ‘assume responsibility’ for slave trade
The ambiance of the Bab al-Yemen restaurant in Boston adds to a unique dining experience for customers, Apr. 12, 2023.
Lifestyle & Belief
At Boston’s first Yemeni restaurant, food, community and tradition are on the menu this Ramadan
DMV rapper and record producer Oddisee realized early on that purpose and success are self-designated.
Movement
Sudanese American rapper Oddisee on overcoming cultural taboos and confronting self-doubt
The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center has amplified its social emotional learning curriculum for preschoolers facing pandemic-related challenges.
Education
Chinatown preschool helps families name pandemic-related feelings
Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Voudo goddesses and saints.
Music
Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage
The view from the Emerald Line commuter rail, which follows the Pinheiros river and ends at Vila Natal, one of the enclaves of Venezuelan migrants in São Paulo.
Migration
‘We have to fight’: Venezuelan women lead migration to Brazil
President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. But the war dragged on for many years after that.
Critical State
Citizen pain: Part II
Vira Ustyanska, a 34-year-old artist, fled her home in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, soon after the war started. She now lives in San Diego, California, with a host family waiting for the war to end.
Ukraine
Finding home in California after fleeing war in Ukraine
Exterior of the Museum of the City of New York, with a promotion for the "City of Faith" exhibition currently on display, New York, Dec. 1, 2022.
Lifestyle & Belief
Museum exhibit highlights New York’s sacred spaces
Palestinians react as they watch a live broadcast of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Morocco and France played in Qatar, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. 
Sports
As World Cup wraps, Morocco team inspires Arab unity around the world
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, an elderly man sits inside a bus in the station of Moscow, Russia. More and more migrants from the Central Asia are coming come to Moscow in search of work.
Ukraine
Russia’s war creates economic hardships for Central Asian migrants
An image from "Ducks," a graphic novel by Kate Beaton, depicting the "Highway of Death."
Books
‘Wherever the work is, we’re all going’: Graphic novelist on working in Alberta’s tar sands
From left to right: Yeleyeni Songsore and her Ghanaian husband; Mawiyah Kambon and Kamal Kambon; Kwaku Asantu Maroon Asare.
Race
‘This is where I should be’: 1,500 Black Americans make Ghana their new home
Some Ukrainian students were evacuated from Ukraine thanks to a Czech circus company, Cirk La Putyka. “Boom," a performance they took to Edinburgh, was rewritten to reflect the students’ perspectives of war and displacement.
Ukraine
A bittersweet experience for Ukrainian artists at Edinburgh Festival
Magdi Omar Ytreeide Abdelmaguid and Chirag Patel are the artists behind Karpe, a Norwegian rap duo whose latest hit "PAF.no," has gotten people across the country talking about Norwegianess and belonging. 
Music
This Norwegian chart-topper speaks to Norway’s immigration story
Julie Sedivy and other family members visiting her father’s family gravesite in his village of Moravská Nová Ves.
Language
‘Memory speaks’: How to reclaim your mother tongue without having to relearn it from scratch
beach scene
Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees found shelter in Spain’s empty hotels. But then, tourists came back.
Body bags lie at the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, in San Antonio, Texas
Migrant smuggling networks arise from the ‘lack of legal pathways’ into the US, expert says
Ginette Derelus is a cook at Manjay Restaurant at The Citadel near Little Haiti, Miami. Duolingo partnered with Haitian restaurants to promote the new language course. Derelus, a Haitian Bahamian, says she and her Haitian husband teach their three childre
On Course
A love letter to Haitian Creole: ‘Kreyòl pale, Kreyòl konprann’
an ICE agent's back
On Course
Immigrant students settle with govt over fake university
María Teresa Navas Mejía, a long-term employee at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently received her green card thanks to Carina De La Torre and students in Colorado Law’s Immigration Defense Clinic.
On Course
Colorado law students gain ‘powerful’ lessons providing free legal services to immigrants
Prem Pariyar stands in front of Alexander Meiklejohn Hall on the campus of California State University, East Bay.
On Course
‘Hidden discrimination’: California university joins national trend to protect against caste bias on campus
Yessika Godoy waits in line outside a government office in Bogotá, Colombia, where she's trying to get her ID card restored.
Immigration
Amid immigration crackdown, Colombia revokes national IDs for thousands of Venezuelans without warning
Tom Kania is working with a community co-sponsorship group and IRIS to welcome an Afghan refugee family of up to six. The Middletown apartment has been fully furnished by IRIS and is ready for the family when they arrive.
Afghanistan
‘It’s the American spirit’: These Connecticut landlords are stepping up to help Afghan refugees arriving in the US
encampment
Migration
A group of Haitian migrants says they were abused at the US-Mexico border. They’re suing the US govt.
Taiwan-born artist Wen-hao Tien (left) started inviting people from around the world to teach her songs from their homelands as part her exhibit on immigration experiences at an art center in Boston, Massachusetts. 
Language
Learning through singing: This artist wants you to teach her a song in your native language
Firebaugh residents perform traditional Aztec dances for the Virgen de Guadalupe celebration.
Las Posadas holiday tradition brings ‘joy to the people’ in California community hit hard by the pandemic